On the interaction of portmanteaux and ellipsis

This thesis is an investigation of what happens when an ellipsis boundary tries to split a portmanteau. It focuses on two patterns: elliptical indivisibility, and elliptical divisibility. Elliptical indivisibility is exemplified by the Hungarian portmanteau negative 3rd person indicative copula, whi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Banerjee, Neil
Other Authors: Albright, Adam
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/140195